Tag: fitness

Longer answer: Hot and fresh out the proverbial kitchen is a study in the journal Sportsthat compares muscle growth and performance between people supplementing with pea protein powder and people supplementing with whey. The conclusion:

In the first half of a roller derby scrimmage on Saturday, I was in the middle of a pile-up on the track. In the tussle, I messed up my MCL, or the ligament on the inside of my knee. If it’s torn, it’s only slightly. It’s Wednesday now, and it already feels 10,000 times better than it did on Saturday.

Of course, it probably wouldn’t have hurt that bad on Saturday if that pesky adrenaline hadn’t encouraged me to ignore it and play the second half at full-throttle. But I digress.

As much as I missed squatting yesterday, I knew skipping out on leg day was the only non-stupid thing to do. I want to give myself the opportunity to recover, and fast.

Still, two of my five gym days involve my fair use of my gams. With them out of commission, what was I supposed to do?

The secret is: it’s what a non-vegan strength-training program looks like. Perhaps this blog post would be more accurately titled “What a derby player’s strength training program looks like” because that ultimately has more impact on my training program than my diet. But that’s cool. I want to rope vegans into this conversation so they know they can and should lift weights.

On July 29, 2017, I fell doing time trials at roller derby basic training (level 1). I tripped over my own skate doing a crossover around the apex and toppled. My ankle hurt, and used my arms—my fingers!—to drag myself off the track.